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My sister-in-law drinks wine from the time she gets home from work until she goes to bed. I was just told yesterday that her lung problem she has had for a year, been in the hospital a few times for this, and one night was put on a respirator to keep enough oxygen getting to her brain, is Atypical Tuberculosis. She is weak and getting out of bed is exhausting for her but she is going to work every day. They had her on steroids for awhile so her resistance to disease is also down.

Since that diagnosis a week ago, she has to take several antibiotics every day for a year to see if that stops the problem. That is the current treatment for that disease. The doc said the cure rate is somewhere between 40-70%.

The really bad news is a couple of these antibiotics cannot be mixed with alcohol so medically she cannot drink for at least a whole year. We are talking about her living or dying so she cannot drink. How does one suddenly stop one day and never drink another drop for at least a year? I wonder if she can do it as she drank wine every single day.

I hate this happened to her but it did. The docs have no idea how she could have gotten this disease as this type is not contagious.

Have any of you just stopped drinking one day and never drank another drop?